Excerpt from In Memory of My Wife: A Volume of Amatory and Elegiac Verse
The story is a mournful one. Within one short month of their nuptials, the bride lay in her shroud, and the bridegroom, returning from his work on Christmas eve,~ glad at the prospect of a short holiday, only learned of the real danger of his wife just in time to witness her departure for the spirit-land, for which she was eminently prepared by her life of faith and purity in this world. For several Winters before her death her health had been o delicate, but not so as to cause any serious apprehensions, certainly not to justify the suspicion that consumption - the stern foe of a temperament which so often blooms into intellectual, spiritual, and physical beauty - had markedher as its prey. The reader will remember how severe the recent winter was, especially about the close of the year, and how many people of all ages had not sufficient vital force to brave it. Mrs. Burgess was one of these. She was not in strong health at the time of her marriage, but this was attributed partly to the recent death of an infant brother to whom she was very tenderly attached. The date of the ceremony had then been fixed, and as it had been postponed once before, the medical attendant strongly advised that it should not again be deferred.
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